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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

You're not socialist enough!

I'm afraid that there are still some who think that nationlising all service providers automatically convert these companies into some kind of charitable provider with a social conscience.


Those of us who "survived" the nationlised suppliers of the sixties/seventies can vouch for the "Sod you" attitude that was wide spread then.

Oh it's fine, in Greece even the nationalised industries don't pay their taxes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/bu...s-pile-up.html

Greece, where improving tax collection is a condition for aid from its E.U. partners and the International Monetary Fund, has started to publicize the names of companies that owe taxes, hoping that will shame them into paying. It recently released a list of 6,000 enterprises owing a total of more than €30 billion in taxes, including the state-owned railway operator.

I'm not quite sure how redistributing wealth would resolve this issue, I'm also not sure how it would fix the issues highlighted below:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/f...x-evasion.html

There have been some imaginative attempts to widen the collection pool. Helicopters have been hovering over plush suburbs in northern Athens in the search for swimming pools in the homes of professional people who claim they are living on only €35,000-€43,000 a year.

Cash provides a convenient escape route for lawyers, accountants and builders. The government has published the names of almost 70 doctors it says have cheated the taxman and some surgeons are said to be earning €900,000 a year and not declaring tax.

Economists estimate that 2m private sector workers are carrying the brunt of the tax load while a million public sector employees and 1.3m self-employed escape almost financially unscathed.